Mycobacteria isolated from temperate stony corals. [PDF]
MicroPubl BiolIn marine environment, actinobacteria are widely distributed in water and sediments, and form symbiotic relationships with higher organisms. In this study, we isolated 49 actinobacterial strains from three temperate stony corals , Pocillopora damicornis , Acropora hyacinthus and Acropora muricata .
Ulanova D, Mezaki T, Kubota S.
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Black corals, ecologically important cnidarians found from shallow to deep ocean depths, form a strong yet flexible skeleton of sclerotized chitin and other biomolecules including proteins.
Jeana L. Drake, Tali Mass, Tali Mass
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Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity
Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 Coral reefs are biodiversity and productivity hotspots where space limitation makes interactions between organisms inevitable. Biodiversity loss alters these interactions, however downstream effects on the productivity of individual species remain ...
Kara E. Engelhardt +8 more
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Metabolomics of Healthy and Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Affected Montastraea cavernosa Corals
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Stony coral tissue loss disease, first observed in Florida in 2014, has now spread along the entire Florida Reef Tract and on reefs in many Caribbean countries.
Jessica M. Deutsch +9 more
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Decline in coral cover and flattening of the reefs around Mauritius (1998–2010) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Coral reefs are degrading through the impacts of multiple anthropogenic stressors. How are coral reef communities going to change and how to protect them for future generations are important conservation questions.
Jennifer A. Elliott +4 more
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Structure and Function of Stony Coral Intraskeletal Polysaccharides [PDF]
ACS Omega, 2018 Polysaccharides represent a main weight fraction of the intraskeletal organic matrix of corals, but their structure, as well as their function in the calcification process, has been poorly investigated. This communication shows by a combination of techniques (nuclear magnetic resonance, Fourier transform infrared, and monosaccharide composition) that ...
Annamaria Naggi +8 more
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Bidirectional sex change in mushroom stony corals [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008 Sex change occurs when an individual changes from one functional sex to another. The direction of sex change occurs mainly from male to female (protandry) or vice versa (protogyny), but sometimes may be bidirectional (repetitive). Here, for the first time in stony corals, we report on a protandrous sex change exhibited by two mushroom corals,Fungia ...
Yossi, Loya, Kazuhiko, Sakai
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Marine Anoxia and Ocean Acidification During the End‐Permian Extinction
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 325-340., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Ying Cui +4 more
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Microbiomes of stony and soft deep-sea corals share rare core bacteria
Microbiome, 2019 Background Numerous studies have shown that bacteria form stable associations with host corals and have focused on identifying conserved “core microbiomes” of bacterial associates inferred to be serving key roles in the coral holobiont.
Christina A. Kellogg
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Tracking morphological development in stony corals
Coral ReefsAbstract The shape of reef-building corals largely determines how they interact with their environment and the ecosystem services they provide. However, morphology is not fixed. As corals grow and develop from singular polyps to mature adult colonies, they experience pronounced changes in their morphology.
Fundakowski GJ +12 more
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